1.19.2006

changes

       After testing for a few months, the new archives page has been moved to the library server. Final modifications are being made and missing entries will be in place in the next couple of days. It is fortunate that there are no current events to speak of as the old site is inaccessible during the transition. All will be well shortly.

11.04.2005

Welcome

       Welcome to the new updated media archives events site. Hosted by blogspot, this site will give us the ability to keep the site updated and the news current- when there is news to tell- as well as efficiently archive the site.

Events we have hosted since the year 2000 are being added to the page at present and in the new year this page will be your up to the minute source for all events hosted by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia as well as events we host in conjunction with the Athens Clarke County Public Library.

Recent Events are listed in the upper right panel of the page and the long term archives are at the bottom right. Please send any feedback you have about the page to pnunn@uga.edu.

3.01.2005

Women's History Month 2005

       Women Making History

Walter J. Brown Media Archives
& Peabody Awards Collection 
Screenings

all events are free and open to the public


"Iron-Jawed Angels "



Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - 7:00 p.m.
Room 101, Student Learning Center

Taking a fresh and contemporary look at a pivotal event in American history, IRON JAWED ANGELS tells the true story of how defiant and brilliant young activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns took the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. This dramatization stars Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, and Patrick Dempsey. Originally broadcast on HBO on February 15, 2004 . Peabody Awards entry number 2004022 ENT.
Run time: 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Following the screening, there will be a discussion led by Dr. Laura Moore, Franklin Fellow in the University of Georgia Department of History.



"Daughter from Danang "



Monday, March 21, 2005 - 6:00 p.m.
Room 101, Student Learning Center
In 1975, with the end of the war in Vietnam imminent, Mai Thi Kim, a poor, young Vietnamese woman, sent her seven-year-old daughter to America as part of a controversial evacuation program known as "Operation Babylift." The parting was devastating to both mother and child, but Kim believed her Amerasian daughter--the product of a brief love affair with an American Navy officer--would be in danger in Vietnam. The little girl was adopted by a single woman, renamed Heidi and brought up in Tennessee where she concealed her Asian past and became "101%" American. Twenty-two years later, Heidi tracked down her birth mother and visited Danang. The reunion that had raised so many hopes and expectations for Heidi and Kim, quickly became rife with tension and misunderstanding as the cultural gulf between Heidi and her Vietnamese family grew larger and larger.

This important, heart wrenching film speaks to the dislocating experiences of immigrant families the world over and points to the lasting, and at times, invisible wounds inflicted by a conflict that ended more than two decades ago.

Originally broadcast on April 7, 2003 as part of the PBS series The American Experience. Peabody Awards entry number 2003294 DCT Run time: 57 minutes.

Following the screening, there will be a discussion led by Dr. Ian Lekus, Franklin Fellow in the University of Georgia Department of History.



"The Pill "



Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 7:00 p.m.
Room 101, Student Learning Center

In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation's history. For women across the country, the contraceptive pill was liberating: it allowed them to pursue careers, it fueled the feminist and pro-choice movements and it encouraged more open attitudes towards sex. Among the key players in the development of the drug were two elderly female activists who demanded a contraceptive women could eat like aspirin and then paid for the scientific research; a devout Catholic gynecologist who believed a robust sex life made for a good marriage and argued tirelessly that the Pill was a natural form of birth control; and a brilliant biologist who bullied a pharmaceutical company into risking a possibly crippling boycott to develop this revolutionary contraceptive. In describing the struggles they all hurdled, and by featuring the experiences of a wide-range of ordinary women who came of age in the '40s, '50s and '60s, The Pill presents a compelling account of a society in transition.

Originally broadcast on February 24, 2003 as part of the PBS series The American Experience. Peabody Awards entry number 2003299 DCT. Run time: 57 minutes.

Following the screening, there will be a discussion led by Michelle Cohen, UGA's Sexual Health Coordinator.


For information about other Women's History Month events,

please visit the Women's Studies Program calendar.



For more information, contact the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department at 542-7360 or Mary Miller, mlmiller@uga.edu